[WEB4LIB] Re: Why upgrade to Communicator?

Thomas Dowling tdowling at ohiolink.edu
Tue Nov 3 09:52:38 EST 1998


On the other hand, if you've gone this long without upgrading to 4.x (its
first beta came out almost two years ago), you may just want to sit tight
for a while and plan to make your upgrade to 5.0.

Thomas Dowling
OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
tdowling at ohiolink.edu


> -----Original Message-----
> From: web4lib at webjunction.org
> [mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org]On Behalf Of Andrew I. Mutch
> Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 1998 9:57 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: Why upgrade to Communicator?
>
>
> Michael,
>
> If your machines will support running the 4.0 version, there are several
> benefits to running Navigator 4.0 over version 3.0.
>
> Probably the biggest benefit is that you can run a stand-alone
> version of
> Navigator that does not have any of the mail components that you find in
> version 3.0.  This is often a source of problems for both patrons and
> staff.
>
> Other benefits of version 4.0 include:
>
> Better support for running Java and handling Javascript
> Support of style sheets (well, not really, but sort of!)
> Ability to lock-in preferences using the prefs.js file
> "Self-cleaning" caches
>
> In general, I've found that version 4.0 Navigators perform
> better than 3.0
> versions and that they can handle the wide variety of web sites
> employing
> Java, Javascript, Dynamic HTML and other features that version 3.0 will
> often trip up on.
>
> If you decide not to upgrade to 4.0, make sure that you are running the
> most current version 3.0, which is 3.04 (last time I checked!).  It
> handles Java reasonably well while earlier versions choke on it quite
> often.
>
> Andrew Mutch
> Electronic Services Support
> Northville District Library
> Northville, MI
>
>
> On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Michael Lucas wrote:
>
> >
> > Are there any advantages to upgrading from Netscape Navigator
> > to Communicator. I'm currently running Navigator 3.0 on all of
> > our Internet workstations, but have yet to be convinced that
> > there is a need to upgrade to the latest version of
> > Communicator. If anyone has upgraded from Navigator to
> > Communicator, I'd be interested to hear why and what were the
> > reasons or advantages of upgrading.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > Michael J. Lucas
> > Reference and Information Services
> > Jefferson-Madison Regional Library
> > Charlottesville, Virginia  22902
> > Email: mlucas at avenue.org
> > Phone: (804)979-7151, ext. 400 Fax: (804) 971-7035
> >
>
>



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